De-stress with some of our four-legged friends! We host chilling with dogs each week over the lunch hour.

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – contemplative music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – prayers for the world
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; multifaith teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: contemplative arts; Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

For more details, see the Fall 2019 program flyer.

Pause and reflect each Thursday at Luther. We host multifaith teaching sessions each week over the lunch hour.

Fall Schedule 

• Sept. 5 – But I say to you: Jewish Teaching, Daniel Maoz
• Sept. 12 – Islamic teaching, Engin and Selda Sezen
• Sept. 19 – Mid-day Moot, Pamela Loughton
• Sept. 26 – Stages on a Buddhist Path, Christopher Ross
• Oct. 3 – But I say to you: Jewish Teaching, Daniel Maoz
• Oct. 10 – Islamic teaching, Engin and Selda Sezen CANCELLED
• Oct. 24 – Stages on a Buddhist Path, Christopher Ross
• Oct. 31 – Mid-day Moot, Pamela Loughton
• Nov. 7 – But I say to you: Jewish Teaching, Daniel Maoz
• Nov. 14 – Islamic teaching, Engin and Selda Sezen
• Nov. 21 – Stages on a Buddhist Path, Christopher Ross
• Nov. 28 – Mid-day Moot, Pamela Loughton

Stop by any day of the week for different activities:

• Mondays – contemplative music
• Tuesdays – Reading and Reflecting on the Book of Acts: A Window into the Early Church
• Wednesdays – prayers for the world
• Thursdays – Chilling with Dogs; multifaith teachings
• Fridays – Settler Work: contemplative arts; Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

Gain strategies for how you can support friends with their mental health, while maintaining your own.

About Wellness 101

This educational series of workshops runs once per month on Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Wellness Education Centre, SS 1-107 (formerly the Student Health and Development Centre). There is one Wellness 101 workshop for each of the seven dimensions. Each workshop is run by wellness education staff and peer wellness educators and is based on research, active learning strategies, and student feedback.

Workshops are free for all registered students, and registration is not required. All Wellness 101 workshops are approved Wellness Education Certificate activities.

For more information on the certificate program, please see wlu.ca/wellness.

The Tshepo Institute presents the Nelson Mandela lecture series. Geoffrey Kistruck will deliver the keynote address.

"Is Entrepreneurship the Solution to Poverty?"

Kistruck will address how both scholars and practitioners have come to view entrepreneurship as a promising path for breaking the cycle of persistent global poverty. However, efforts to spur such entrepreneurial activity (i.e. microfinance loans, training programs, etc.) have thus far failed to achieve the desired results. Drawing upon over a decade of field work, Kistruck will share both his empirically-based insights, as well as personal thoughts and critical reflections on such complex issues.

Background

Kistruck is the Ron Binns Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Canada, and Director of the Social Innovation Research Lab. His research involves collaborating with poverty-focused organizations to design and field test theoretically-based solutions to some of the sector’s most pressing challenges.

He is an editor at the Journal of Business Venturing, and has published articles in a number of leading management journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Operations Management, Organization Studies, and the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

No appointment? No problem!

Drop by Learning Skills and Development for writing and study skills drop-in support every Thursday. First come, first served! Sign up for a 30-minute consultation.

A facilitated study group (FSG) is a time and place for you to get together with other people from your classes and an FSG leader (someone who has previously taken the course) to discuss the course content and gain a deeper understanding of what is being covered in the class lectures and readings.

This does not mean that the FSG leaders will teach you the content, but they will help you enhance your understanding of course material, and they can also help students with understanding assignment requirements.